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having done so much to lay the groundwork for the portrayal of Lee Harvey
Oswald as a lone communist agitator.
In later years, it should be noted, it was Sheridan who set up shop—
although he was not a lawyer—at the law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca
and Lewin in Washington, D.C. This was the firm of a former Justice
Department colleague of Sheridan's named Nathan Lewin who, by this
time, had emerged as one of the Israeli lobby's most prominent legmen in
the city of Washington.
It was from his office in Lewin's firm that Sheridan laid the
groundwork for the establishment of a security firm that provided exclusive
services to the Caribbean resort empire known as Resorts International: 702
As we noted in Chapter 7, Resorts International is generally perceived as a
joint intelligence operation linking the CIA and the Meyer Lansky Crime
Syndicate alongside the Israeli Mossad.
It is fitting, in this context, to note that JFK assassination researcher
Peter Dale Scott has pointed out that Walter Sheridan's account of his work in
fighting organized crime in the Kennedy Justice Department "omits such
obviously relevant names as those of Meyer Lansky." 703 This is not
surprising, of course, in light of all that we have seen regarding Sheridan
and the forces behind the effort to destroy Jim Garrison's investigation of
Clay Shaw and the JFK assassination conspiracy.
GARRISON PILLORIED
In any case, it is very clear that forces with close ties to the Israeli
lobby were among those leading the assault on Garrison. Garrison was
pilloried on national television time and again. He was ruthlessly savaged in
the press. His integrity was questioned and his methods of inquiry were
called into judgment.
So it was with anyone who questioned the "official" word on the JFK
assassination. The CIA even went to the trouble of preparing a review of
Warren Commission critic Mark Lane's best-selling Rush to Judgment that
was distributed to CIA friends and assets in the media
This was all part and parcel of the campaign to discredit those who were
on the brink of uncovering the real truth about the JFK assassination,
something that neither Israel nor its allies at the CIA could permit.
SABOTAGE FROM WITHIN
In his own memoirs, Garrison notes how, time and again, he and his
fellow investigators in the New Orleans District Attorneys office discovered
evidence that their work was being sabotaged from within. Government
infiltrators and others were not only spying on Garrison's activities, but
they were attempting to undermine the whole investigation. To Garrison's
dismay, even some seemingly dedicated volunteers who had offered to help
the professional investigators turned out to be saboteurs.